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Posted by Mandy
on 2/9/2004, 11:06 pm
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If you like to do language activities related to books, you could probably find lots of books that you could associate motor activities with. For example, the book "Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed", you could do a jumping activity. A game that I came up with for a school project that goes along with the book "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie" is like a sweeping game. I put a bunch of paper cookies (with artic. pictures paperclipped to the back of each one) at one end of the room and we used a broom to sweep the cookies to the other end (I think we even had to weave them through cones). Then the kid would have to say his/her word on the back of the cookie. You could try to adapt this to your langauge goals. Another idea was to act out the book (I believe it's called) "The Mitten" (or maybe "The Lost Mitten"). The early childhood teacher that did this activity made a huge "mitten" by cutting a mitten shape out of two old sheets and then sewing them together. Each child then got his/her own mask corresponding with characters/animals in the story that went into the mitten. Then as each child's character was read about in the story they each got to crawl into the mitten. I don't know if any of these will help you, but hopefully they will give you some ideas. Good luck.
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